The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on bank lending around the world

Gonul Colak, Özde Öztekin*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We evaluate the influence of the pandemic on global bank lending and identify bank and country characteristics that amplify or weaken the effect of the disease outbreak on bank credit. Using a sample of banks from 125 countries, we apply a difference-in-difference methodology and find that bank lending is weaker in countries that are more affected by the health crisis. This effect depends on the bank's financial conditions, market structure, regulatory and institutional environment, financial intermediary and debt market development, ease of access of corporate firms to debt capital, and the response of the public health sector to the crisis.
Original languageEnglish
Article number106207
Peer-reviewed scientific journalJournal of Banking & Finance
Volume133
Number of pages24
ISSN0378-4266
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2021
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article - refereed

Keywords

  • 511 Economics
  • bank loans
  • credit supply
  • COVID-19
  • difference-in-difference method
  • entropy balancing

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